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Isaiah 64:8

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But Lord, you are our father. We are like clay, and you are the potter; your hands made us all.

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Does it make you happy to trouble me? Don’t you care about me, the work of your hands? Are you happy with the plans of evil people?

Know that the Lord is God. He made us, and we belong to him; we are his people, the sheep he tends.

You made me and formed me with your hands. Give me understanding so I can learn your commands.

Lord, you do everything for me. Lord, your love continues forever. Do not leave us, whom you made.

God, why have you rejected us for so long? Why are you angry with us, the sheep of your pasture?

Come, let’s worship him and bow down. Let’s kneel before the Lord who made us,

Don’t let the people of Egypt say, ‘The Lord brought the Israelites out of Egypt for an evil purpose. He planned to kill them in the mountains and destroy them from the earth.’ So stop being angry, and don’t destroy your people.

Then say to the king, ‘This is what the Lord says: Israel is my firstborn son.

The Lord All-Powerful will bless them, saying, “Egypt, you are my people. Assyria, I made you. Israel, I own you. You are all blessed!”

You are confused. You think the clay is equal to the potter. You think that an object can tell the one who made it, “You didn’t make me.” This is like a pot telling its maker, “You don’t know anything.”

“I, I am the One who erases all your sins, for my sake; I will not remember your sins.

Bring to me all the people who are mine, whom I made for my glory, whom I formed and made.”

“People of Jacob, remember these things! People of Israel, remember you are my servants. I made you, and you are my servants. So Israel, I will not forget you.

This is what the Lord says, who saved you, who formed you in your mother’s body: “I, the Lord, made everything, stretching out the skies by myself and spreading out the earth all alone.

This is what the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and its Maker, says: “You ask me about what will happen. You question me about my children. You give me orders about what I have made.

“How terrible it will be for those who argue with the God who made them. They are like a piece of broken pottery among many pieces. The clay does not ask the potter, ‘What are you doing?’ The thing that is made doesn’t say to its maker, ‘You have no hands.’

I will not accuse forever, nor will I always be angry, because then human life would grow weak. Human beings, whom I created, would die.

All of your people will do what is right. They will receive the earth forever. They are the plant I have planted, the work of my own hands to show my greatness.

You are our father. Abraham doesn’t know we are his children, and Israel doesn’t recognize us. Lord, you are our father. You are called “the one who has always saved us.”

He said, “These are my people; my children will not lie to me.” So he saved them.

A child has been born to us; God has given a son to us. He will be responsible for leading the people. His name will be Wonderful Counselor, Powerful God, Father Who Lives Forever, Prince of Peace.

They will be crying as they come, but they will pray as I bring them back. I will lead those people by streams of water on an even road where they will not stumble. I am Israel’s father, and Israel is my firstborn son.

“But the number of the Israelites will become like the grains of sand of the sea, which no one can measure or count. They were called, ‘You are not my people,’ but later they will be called ‘children of the living God.’

We all have the same father; the same God made us. So why do people break their promises to each other and show no respect for the agreement our ancestors made with God?

So you are doing the things your own father did.” But they said, “We are not like children who never knew who their father was. God is our Father; he is the only Father we have.”

You were all baptized into Christ, and so you were all clothed with Christ. This means that you are all children of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

You belong to Christ, so you are Abraham’s descendants. You will inherit all of God’s blessings because of the promise God made to Abraham.

God has made us what we are. In Christ Jesus, God made us to do good works, which God planned in advance for us to live our lives doing.

This is not the way to repay the Lord, you foolish and unwise people. He is your Father and Maker, who made you and formed you.

But they are your people, Lord, your own people, whom you brought out of Egypt with your great power and strength.”




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